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Originally Posted by American_Ernesider
Thanks for all of the comments/assistance. I do like the group feature and I like a lot of these multiple-group examples --
1) How do you maintain these? Do you have a hierarchy of what is more important than another? ...
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Because the group feature is so flexible, it's really easy to experiment. With my fictional HW universe I have added several groups since I began, and I'll probably add more. For example, I might add a Francophone group that will include France and all the other French-speaking nations.
Since it's your universe, you can change the rules any time you want, to meet the needs of whatever playing style you are in the mood for.
This may seem obvious, but sometimes I have had to remind myself not to be shy about simply playing around with things.
I'm also curious about how people maintain a universe that has thousands of fighters. How quickly do you move such a universe forward? How many fights to you watch? Do you rely mainly on the autoscheduler? Do you use lots of regional and national groups? Do you have a world champion, or do you use the alphabet groups? Does the computer slow down with a large universe?
My main universe is the fictional HW one. But I did not play TBCB for a long time, so it is only a couple of game years old, and consists of only a few hundred fighters. I have an historical uni with a start date of 1905, and no groups beyond the weight classes, and I also have a real-world uni for running current fights.
The arrival of TBCB 2.6 has resurrected my interest in the TBCB franchise, though I will still spend most of my time with 2.5 until some more polish has been applied to 2.6 [I *love* earnings tracking, but fight cards have been rough going for me].
Because of the TBCB 2.6-inspired renewal of activity on this forum, maybe we should start a new thread on universes, which would include discussion on how people use groups.